Honorary Faculty

The Sanger Institute has an Honorary Faculty of researcher from other research centres. Our Honorary Faculty
collaborate closely with teams at the Sanger Institute to answer a range of research questions.

This page provides a list of our Honorary Faculty with links to their profiles.

Martin Bobrow

Martin Bobrow was at the University of Cambridge, and has worked on Mendelian diseases and genetic diagnostics,
social issues related to genetic medicine, and research funding.
Martin's profile.

Stephen Baker - Enteric Infections

Dr Stephen Baker is a molecular microbiologist working on enteric and zoonotic infections at the Wellcome Trust major
overseas programme in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Stephen's profile.

Ana Cvejic - Developmental haematopoiesis

Dr Ana Cvejic is CRUK Career Development Fellow at the Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge. She is
interested in the functioning of novel genes found to be associated with normal and malignant blood cell formation.
Ana works in collaboration with Sanger Institute Faculty Derek Stemple, Nicole Soranzo and Peter Campbell.
Ana's profile.

Martin Donnelly - Insecticide resistance of Anopheles gambiae

Martin Donnelly is Reader of Vector Biology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He works in collaboration
with the Sanger Institute Malaria Programme and focuses on insecticide resistance in the malaria mosquito
Anopheles gambiae.
Martin's profile.

Helen Firth is a Consultant Clinical Geneticist at Cambridge University Hospitals Trust who is interested in the
application of new genomic technologies to improve the diagnosis of severe developmental disorders.
Helen's profile.

Paul Flicek - Genome informatics

Paul Flicek is a Team Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute where
he heads the Vertebrate Genomics Team, a combined service and research group interested in the large-scale
infrastructure required for modern bioinformatics including storage and access methods for high throughput sequencing
data.
Paul's profile.

Gad Frankel - Cell and molecular biology of bacterial infection

Gad Frankel is Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis at Imperial College London, specialising in mechanisms of
bacterial colonisation and infection, with particular interest in biology of bacterial proteins that allow take over
of a host cell (translocated bacterial effectors). Gad has been collaborating with Gordon Dougan for many years and
is affiliated with the Microbial Pathogenesis group.
Gad's profile.

Andy Futreal - Cancer Genome Project

Andy Futreal is Professor of Genomic Medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and works closely
with the Institute's Cancer Genome Project.
Andy's profile.

Ian Humphreys

Dr Ian Humphreys is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science at Cardiff University. His
laboratory studies the immunological mechanisms that influence host control of herpesvirus infections.
Ian's profile.

Chris Newbold - Malaria

Chris Newbold is Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, specialising in work on parasite immune
evasion, pathogenesis and genomics.
Chris's profile.

Willem H Ouwehand - Platelets and atherothrombosis

Willem Ouwehand is Reader in Platelet Biology and Genetics and a clinical researcher at the University of Cambridge
School of Clinical Medicine and Honorary Faculty Member at the Sanger Institute.
Willem's profile.

Aarno Palotie

Professor Aarno Palotie is faculty member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Massachusetts General
Hospital, Center for Human Genetic Research in Boston MA and is the Research Director of the Human Genomics Program
at the Institute for Molecular Medicine, FIMM in Helsinki, Finland.
Aarno's profile.

Sharon Peacock - Bacterial diseases

Sharon Peacock is Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Cambridge and works on a range of bacterial
infectious diseases, most notably those caused by Staphylococcus aureus, Burkholderia pseudomallei,
Leptospira spp. and rickettsia.
Sharon's profile.

Samuli Ripatti - Cardiovascular disease and metabolic diseases

Samuli Ripatti is a FIMM-EMBL group leader at Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM where he heads a Genetic
Epidemiology and Biostatistics group focusing on genetic variation and its relation to human metabolism and
cardiovascular diseases.
Samuli's profile.

Karen Steel - Genetics of deafness

Karen Steel is Professor of Sensory Function at the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London,
studying the genetics of deafness. She uses the mouse as a model to identify the genes involved and to understand the
molecular, cellular and physiological mechanisms involved.
Karen's profile.

John Sulston - Science ethics

John Sulston is a part-time Professor at the University of Manchester, where he chairs the institute for Science
Ethics and Innovation.
John's profile.